• Anderson Park - Barron WI
    A Works Progress Administration project improved a natural swimming pool in Barron City Park—today Anderson Park—on the Yellow River in Barron, Wisconsin, adding rip-rap and concrete as well as building a bathhouse and a kitchen on the peninsula overlooking the swimming area. Workers also built a foot bridge connecting the peninsula to the main park, where they graded and resurfaced the parking lot and added tennis courts. All of this was completed with Works Progress Administration labor and funds in 1937-38. Federal contributions came to a total of $3,477 with $3,070 in labor and $407 in other costs, and local contributions...